No, it’s not about asking a stranger for help. It occurs when a person reasons as such: “X is better than y merely because x is foreign (i.e., from another country, culture, etc.) and y is not” in cases in which being foreign is wholly irrelevant to the values of the items compared. This fallacy is like the appeal to familiarity, but instead of a bias in favor of the familiar, it is a bias against the domestic and toward what is exotic and/or distant.
Fallacy: The Appeal to the Foreign
Fallacy: The Appeal to the Foreign
Fallacy: The Appeal to the Foreign
No, it’s not about asking a stranger for help. It occurs when a person reasons as such: “X is better than y merely because x is foreign (i.e., from another country, culture, etc.) and y is not” in cases in which being foreign is wholly irrelevant to the values of the items compared. This fallacy is like the appeal to familiarity, but instead of a bias in favor of the familiar, it is a bias against the domestic and toward what is exotic and/or distant.